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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. From mop-wielding turn-of-the-century housewives to modern soccer moms, American advertising from the late 1800s to today has been consistently depicted housework as women's work. This book analyzes print and TV ads, ad agency documents, and trade journals to show how the housewife framed household work as exclusively feminine care for the family. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFDV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347237
- ISBN
- 9781137347237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Paperback. This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents. Num Pages: 560 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346735
- ISBN
- 9781137346735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 102.71
€ 102.71
Hardcover. Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements. Using long-neglected manuscripts and cutting-edge approaches to fascism as a 'political religion', Feldman argues that Pound's case offers a revealing case study of a modernist author turned propagator of the 'fascist faith'. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; DSC; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345509
- ISBN
- 9781137345509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Paperback. Inside Defense brings together scholars, policy experts and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of the US military to understand the military's role in international politics and its relationship with domestic institutions and society. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JPQB; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343000
- ISBN
- 9781137343000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Hardcover. Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 314 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342058
- ISBN
- 9781137342058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.75
€ 183.75
Hardcover. Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 284 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340955
- ISBN
- 9781137340955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space...
Krige, John, Callahan, Angelina Long, Maharaj...
Paperback. Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 370 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBTW; JPS; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340924
- ISBN
- 9781137340924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. Seeing the critical phase in the construction of a Turkish historical imagination between 1860 to 1950 disregarding the political disruptions, this book demonstrates how history and historical imagery had been instrumental in the nation-building process. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334206
- ISBN
- 9781137334206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. Bringing together core selections from and analysis of material documenting the uneasy collaboration between Herbert and Eisenhower, this collection incisively uses primary sources to illuminate the 1952 Republican nomination fight, the second Hoover Commission, and other key episodes during the Eisenhower presidency. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334084
- ISBN
- 9781137334084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the 1670s, which effectively trumped the gentry's claim to sovereignty. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334053
- ISBN
- 9781137334053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context. Num Pages: 468 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333322
- ISBN
- 9781137333322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.29
€ 183.29
Hardcover. The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship and historical sources, it offers a fresh perspective on the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332172
- ISBN
- 9781137332172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331298
- ISBN
- 9781137331298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.60
€ 52.93
€ 47.60
Hardcover. This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 250 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331267
- ISBN
- 9781137331267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.44
€ 52.93
€ 47.44
Paperback. This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to scholarship by bridging the gap between historical and cultural analysis. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331250
- ISBN
- 9781137331250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. EPUB Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330635
- ISBN
- 9781137330635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330611
- ISBN
- 9781137330611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330437
- ISBN
- 9781137330437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPR; DSA; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330079
- ISBN
- 9781137330079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book provides a fresh perspective on the origins of the confrontation between the US and Iran. It demonstrates that, contrary to the claims of Iran's leaders, there was no instinctive American hostility towards the Revolution, and explains why many assumptions guiding US policy were inappropriate for dealing with the new reality in Iran. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329868
- ISBN
- 9781137329868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
Hardcover. Vaughan renews perspectives on the changes brought about by Irish migrant communities in terms of identity, politics and religion. The book examines on the experience of generations of Irish migrants in the West of Scotland from the aftermath of the Great Famine until the creation of the Republic of Ireland. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329837
- ISBN
- 9781137329837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Hardcover. This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new arenas in the workplace, sport and recreation. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1; MBNH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328137
- ISBN
- 9781137328137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 black & white tables, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 1QDB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327918
- ISBN
- 9781137327918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. The Refuge and the Fortress offers an account of academic refugees in Britain, including those who fled Nazi Germany, and through their testimonies, seeks to understand the qualities they bestowed on their adoptive country. It provides an honest portrayal of the encounters of people from other cultures with the characteristics of the British. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JFFD; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 607.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,New Edition,2nd edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327895
- ISBN
- 9781137327895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.99
€ 67.99